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Poll: Belief in global warming rising among people with little or no trust in scientists

The biggest change in the polling is among people who trust scientists only a little or not at all. About 1 in 3 of the people surveyed fell into that category.

Within that highly skeptical group, 61 percent now say temperatures have been rising over the past 100 years. That’s a substantial increase from 2009, when the AP-GfK poll found that only 47 percent of those with little or no trust in scientists believed the world was getting warmer.

This is an important development because, often in the past, opinion about climate change doesn’t move much in core groups — like those who deny it exists and those who firmly believe it’s an alarming problem, said Jon Krosnick, a Stanford University social psychologist and pollster. Krosnick, who consulted with The Associated Press on the poll questions, said the changes the poll shows aren’t in the hard-core “anti-warming” deniers, but in the next group, who had serious doubts.

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EOS just published some very good news at Eos, Vol. 93, No. 51, 18 December 2012. In sum:

Global precipitation variability
decreased from 1940 to 2009
One of the strongly held assumptions of climate change is that the variability of precipitation will grow with an increase in temperature. Storms will become heavier but less frequent. Flash floods and droughts will increase. Regions that see extensive rainfall will get even more while arid regions will dry out. These projections stem from the way temperature affects precipitation patterns in global models. However, drawing on seven databases representing global monthly mean precipitation values, Sun et al. found that from 1940 to 2009 global overland precipitation variability actually decreased. In addition, they found that the changes in precipitation patterns that did occur led to a redistribution of rainfall such that on average wet areas and seasons got drier, and dry areas and seasons got wetter.

Believing the Earth is getting warmer and thinking man is responsible are two different things. This AP writer Seth Borenstein has been on the AGW bandwagon for a long time. He is not an objective journalist. Just look at how he throws around the word “denier.” His articles should be viewed as opinion pieces, not news.

Energy is the life blood of advanced civilizations. CO2 is the by-product therefore is it any surprise that the ideology that wants to do away with advancement of free societies would seek to tie CO2 with the natural oscillations of earth’s climate?

Yeah. We’ve probably been warming since the Little Ice Age. So what? Does that mean that man has caused it or that man can do anything about it? Or that “scientists” and “scientific studies” are generally believable? Particularly when they are related to politically “hot” topics? I have a PhD in a hard science from a top school and *I* don’t believe these clowns.

Because they’re not listening to the scientists… They’re listening to the daily lies by the media day in and day out that the Earth is turning into a furnace (its not) and just jumping on the bandwagon…

Same with every other political boondoggle like abortion, gay marriage, green energy and fracking.

Just because you have a majority vote doesn’t mean it’s really happening or that it’s good for society. Because society WILL vote itself all of YOUR money to fix THEIR fabled ills.

Poll: Belief in global warming rising among people with little or no trust in scientists

Trivia:

The Ewoks killed their scientists and then moved into the forest.

And then turned into small tyranical communities forced to live in the trees, dictated to by the warrior with the best weapons. But, they were happy. Just wondering….did you ever wonder why the Ewoks lived up in the trees? I can only assume that 1) it rained a lot on Endor, or 2) they were food for another species that couldn’t get up a tree.

Even the IPCC can’t show their predictions have done anything but fail. I guess in a mindset where $250,000 is equivalent to “millionaires and billionaires” then computer simulated BS can be “science!”.

What does any of that have to do with science? How many of those who say temps have been rising over the last hundred years also say temps have been rising over the last 200 years? Glacier Bay, Alaska turned from glacier to bay from 1800 to 1900.